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Wireline telecom earnings in the third quarter of 2014

The third-quarter 2014 earnings season has begun, and FierceTelecom is tracking how key players in the wireline telecom industry performed. Check here throughout the third-quarter reporting season for updates on providers, vendors and integrators in this segment.

Also, our colleagues at FierceWireless and FierceCable are tracking the third-quarter results of the major players in the wireless and cable segments.

Oct. 15ADTRAN
Adtran reported that its third-quarter 2014 earnings declined to $162.9 million year-over-year from $177.4 million due to a decrease in its European business and slower enterprise sales.
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Oct. 22AT&T (NYSE: T)
AT&T's U-verse services drove up consumer wireline revenue growth 3 percent year-over-year to $5.7 billion and helped to cushion the blow of legacy consumer and business service losses.
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Infinera
Infinera's third-quarter 2014 GAAP revenue was $173.6 million, up year-over-year from $142 million in the third quarter of 2013.
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Oct. 24 América Móvil
América Móvil reported that its net profit dropped 38 percent year-over-year to $754 million, falling short of analyst expectations due to an increase in taxes and weak results at its European holdings Telekom Austria and KPN.
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Oct. 30Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU)
Alcatel-Lucent reported that IP routing proved to be a stellar revenue performer, rising 2.2 percent in the third quarter to $749 million, while other segments saw notable declines.
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Bell Aliant
Bell Aliant continued on its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) expansion path, adding 19,000 new FibreOP customers during the quarter, bringing total FibreOP Internet customers to approximately 236,000 at the end of September 2014.
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Calix
Calix reported that third-quarter 2014 revenue was $105.8 million, up 2.1 percent year-over-year from $103.6 million the same period a year ago.
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Consolidated Communications
Consolidated Communications reported that in the third quarter of 2014, Ethernet services were a star performer in its portfolio, rising 14 percent year-over-year, but that was not enough to completely offset the drag of legacy service declines.
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Oct. 31 Shentel
Shentel continued to find gold in its fiber lease segment as revenues rose 15.7 percent year-over-year to $8.1 million, helping to offset declines in legacy voice and drive up overall wireline revenues.
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TDS Telecom
TDS Telecom is seeing its own IP transition efforts come alive as the telco reported that it grew TDS TV and commercial managedIP connection revenue, a factor that enabled it to ease the pain of ongoing voice and wholesale revenue declines.
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Nov. 3Sprint (NYSE: S)
Sprint's new CEO Marcelo Claure reiterated during the third-quarter earnings call that the company is open to selling its struggling wireline assets, a move that would allow the company to focus exclusively on its wireless business.
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Nov. 4EarthLink
EarthLink may have reduced its net loss to $2 million year-over-year from $11.3 million, but the service provider reported that revenues dropped in both its consumer and business segments.
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Frontier Communications
Frontier Communications' slight gains in residential and business service segments helped the service provider offset its overall revenue decline during the third quarter.
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Nov. 5CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL)
CenturyLink has reiterated its plans to bring its growing Prism IPTV service into new markets next year as it continues to work with various communities to establish new franchise agreements.
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Cincinnati Bell
Cincinnati Bell has taken a bet that fiber-based broadband should be its focus, one that continued to pay off in the third quarter as the demand for its Fioptics service suite totaled $37 million, up 39 percent year-over-year.
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FairPoint Communications
For FairPoint Communications, Ethernet continues to be a key element in its financial results, and the third quarter of 2014 was no exception.
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Level 3 Communications
Level 3, which has just completed its acquisition of tw telecom, reported that Core Network Services (CNS) revenue rose 5.8 percent to $1.48 billion, helping to offset ongoing declines in its wholesale business.
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Nov. 6Windstream
Windstream's ongoing move to establish a greater foothold in the medium-sized business market continues to bear fruit as the service provider reported in third-quarter 2014 earnings that enterprise and small business service revenues were $752 million, up slightly year-over-year.
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Nov. 7Lumos Networks
Lumos' fiber-to-the-cell (FTTC) site momentum continued into the third quarter, with the company reporting that it now has a total of 708 cell sites connected to its fiber network, up 31 percent year-over-year amidst a fall in overall revenues.
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ZayoGroup
Zayo reported that its fiscal year first-quarter revenue rose 32 percent sequentially on an annualized basis to $320.6 million due to acquisitions and internal organic growth.
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Nov. 10Hawaiian Telcom
Hawaiian Telcom reported that while it continued to see IPTV, broadband and data center colocation service growth in the third quarter, these gains were offset by a decline in managed revenues and expected legacy POTS voice access line revenue, driving down overall revenue slightly year-over-year to $97.3 million.
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